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Ram Dayal Sharma: Innovate use of craft
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uses his carpentry skills to change the lives of many.
Ram Dayal Sharma was born in a humble family of carpenters in Barbatta village in district Samastipur, Bihar. Educated till Class IX, he followed the family tradition, and came to Delhi in 1984 in search of employment.
Destiny brought him to AADI, then known as the Spastics Society of Northern India, in 1985. While doing the woodwork for the new building of AADI, Ram Dayal observed children with disabilities coming to the organisation, and began making special furniture for them with ideas and suggestions from therapists, individuals and caretakers. After that, there was no looking back!
Ram Dayal's adaptations in wheelchairs, chairs and tables for persons with severe cerebral palsy enables them to sit for long hours at their workplace; he has made changes in doors and toilets to enable disabled people to be a part of the workforce; he has made communication boards and educational aids; he has made ramps at various auditoriums in Delhi, and has provided technical inputs to commercial organisations for the same; he has made adaptations in cutlery and looking glasses; he has made pen/pencil grippers, reading wedges and prone lying frames to enable persons with severe impairment to pursue their education.
Ram Dayal is the rare and classic example of a person who utilises his traditional craft in the most contemporary way to make a difference in the lives of persons with disability. As awareness on disability issues increases, there is a crying need for more Ram Dayals, who could meet the specific need for such design changes.
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New Delhi 110 016.
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